Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) - Softcover

Strachey, Lytton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780760493 ISBN 13: 9781780760490

Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2012

Synopsis

One of the most famous and tortured romances in history―between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex―began in 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was nineteen. Their passionate affair continued for five years, until Essex was beheaded for treason in 1601. In a fast-paced succession of brilliantly-rendered scenes, Lytton Strachey portrays Elizabeth and Essex’s compelling attraction for each other, their impassioned disagreements and their mutual struggle for power, which culminated so tragically―for both of them. Alongside the doomed love affair, Strachey pins colourful portraits of the leading characters and influential figures of the time: Francis Bacon, Walter Raleigh, Robert Cecil and other members of her glittering court who fought to assert themselves in a kingdom and a country defined by Elizabeth’s incomparable reign. Lytton Strachey here illuminates, in spellbinding prose, one of the most poignant affairs in history alongside the glamour and intrigue of the Elizabethan era.

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About the Author

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), one of the most famous writers of his time, was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Set and pioneer of a new style of biography. Author of, among others, 'Landmarks', 'Eminent Victorians' and 'Queen Victoria' (also Tauris Parke Paperbacks).

Review

"A beautiful and memorable book." -- Atlantic Monthly "The real drama of ambition, passion, and personality in the pageant of veracious history." -- The Philadelphia Enquirer

About this edition

• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780760493
• ISBN 13: 9781780760490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296